Yesterday a woman, late of Elliots-court in the Old-Bailey, paper-bag-maker, was tried at the sessions at Guildhall, for almost starving to death and cruelly beating her apprentice girl. It appeared on the trial, that the poor girl must have perished for want of the common necessaries of life, had not some of the neighbours thrown eatables to her out of a window, when she was tied to a post in the yard; that when she was at liberty to go out, she had often been seen to pick up and devour with great eagerness potatoe peelings, and such things as were thrown out for the dogs.
The prisoner was sentenced to suffer six months imprisonment in Newgate and to pay a fine of 1s. and give security for her good behaviour for two years. The girl was put out by the parish of Pancras.
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